The 3rd World Computer Bridge Championship took place as part of
the WBF's Orbis World Bridge Championships, held in Bermuda. The ACBL hosted the
first two championships. The 1997 Baron Barclay World Computer Bridge
Championship was held in Albuquerque, NM during the summer NABCs, and the 1998
Baron Barclay/OKbridge World Computer Bridge Championship was held in Chicago,
IL during the summer NABC. This year's World Computer Bridge Championship was
co-hosted by the WBF and ACBL and sponsored by Orbis Investment Management
Limited. Al Levy, a member of the ACBL Board of Directors, is the creator of the
World Computer Bridge Championship and acted as the organizer and coordinator of
this year's event.

Eight computer programs from around the world competed in the Orbis World
Computer Bridge Championship. The event started on January 16th with
the eight participants playing a 10-board round robin. The top four programs
from the round robin played a 38-board semifinal match on January
19th and the winners played a 54-board final on January
20th.

The standings at the end of the round robin were:

Program / versus

Total

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

1

GIB (USA)

www.gibware.com

100

X

14

11

16

7

19

16

17

2

Wbridge5 (France)

ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/yvescostel

99

6

X

19

13

16

7

18

20

3

Micro Bridge (Japan)

www.threeweb.ad.jp/~mcbridge

91

9

1

X

18

15

15

13

20

4

Bridge Buff (Canada)

www.bridgebuff.com

70

4

7

2

X

12

20

5

20

5

Q-Plus Bridge (Germany)

www.q-plus.com

66

13

4

5

8

X

11

14

11

6

Blue Chip Bridge (UK)

www.bluechipbridge.co.uk

58

1

13

5

0

9

X

11

19

7

Bridge Baron (USA)

www.bridgebaron.com

57

4

2

7

15

6

9

X

14

8

Meadowlark Bridge (USA)

rrnet.com/meadowlark

19

3

0

0

0

9

1

6

X

In the semifinals (38 boards plus full carryover from 10-round robin):